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Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:29 pm
by Randi
I normally take the bus several times a week. I stopped early last year when covid arrived. I took the bus once this past July when we
seemed to be over the worst of it and I was fully vaccinated. Right now it doesn't really seem like a good idea
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Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:36 pm
by AvastMH
I wouldn't go near a bus at all these days. My friend has to use the bus to get to work but complains, daily, about the bad habits of other uses most especially those who wear their mask around their neck.
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Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:26 pm
by pommystuart
Question for the sailing people.
What does in mean in the
log when I see "a crop in the hawse" as at the end of each reporting block.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 6_0091.JPG
It's the first time I remember seeing the phrase.
Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:48 pm
by studentforever
It's "cross in the hawse", the double s can look a bit like a p and seems to be something to do with the cables coming through the hawse hole having a twist rather than running parallel. There is a complicated proceedure for 'uncrossing' them although sometimes they seem to sort themselves out. I'm sure one of our proper sailors could explain it better.
Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:03 pm
by Randi
CROSS IN THE HAWSE. Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two cables lie across each other.—To cross a vessel's hawse is to sail across the line of her course, a little ahead of her.
from
The Sailor's Word-Book, by Admiral W. H. Smyth, 1867
Re: Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:38 pm
by krwood
Interesting they are keeping a such close record of the anchor hawse on these pages (while anchored in Queenstown, Ireland). A cross in the hawse is on the way to having an elbow and then a cross-and-elbow. And indeed it is quite troublesome to sort. Read all about here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=SpcUo ... se&f=false.
I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS
Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:38 am
by pommystuart
Thanks studentforever, Randy and Kevin.
We are also in consist with the "Augusta" which hit us in Boston on the day we sailed.
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:20 am
by studentforever
Completely irrelevant to OW but possibly of interest to those of you with pet pooches and it's a nice story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59104489
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:05 am
by Maikel
USS Yorktown always recorded the state of the hawse when anchored with the port and starboard anchors.
Clear hawse, elbow in hawse and cross in hawse, often accompanied by which cable is on top, are then recorded for each watch.
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:37 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:39 pm
by Randi
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:01 pm
by AvastMH
That is the weirdest ship I have ever seen! Looks like a tiny floating oil refinery at first glance.
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Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:06 pm
by Randi
The
ironclads are a strange looking bunch!
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 1:12 pm
by AvastMH
Randi wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:39 pm
Happy Halloween!
Nice one Randi!
The sun's at it again this Hallowe'en:
Massive solar flare barreling toward Earth this Halloween. By Brandon Specktor 1 day ago
The category G3 storm could cause some satellite navigation problems, and auroras as far south as Washington state.
The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a strong geomagnetic storm.
The storm — which ranks as a category G3 on the Space Weather Prediction Center's (SWPC) 5-tier scale — is expected to reach Earth late on Saturday (Oct. 30), with effects continuing into Halloween (Oct. 31), according to a SWPC statement...
I'm not sure that it did anything too amazing:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/auro ... e-forecast ![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif)
Re: Chat
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 6:05 pm
by Caro
Halloween greetings from Creepy McCulloch ...
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Re: Chat
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 6:46 pm
by AvastMH
A very happy birthday to you April!!
I bet Randi finds a great cake to go with your cup of tea!
Re: Chat
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 11:26 pm
by Michael
Happy Birthday, April!
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:52 am
by Vic
Happy Birthday!!
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:06 pm
by arboggs
Thank you everyone for the library-themed cake and tea! Based on the birthday I had, the tea is a London Fog and the cake is an Apple-Studded Brown Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. With cinnamon-maple ice cream on the side.
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Everybody have a slice!
Re: Chat
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:13 pm
by Randi
Thank
you
Delicious - and calorie-free!